Word: greenough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greenough-all male...
...unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky who is mentally retarded: "I hoped my little boy would go to Harvard too one day. But he never will, so I'll just have to pick up a degree...
...after a steady financial downslide, the family was forced to sell the castle. It became the Noble and Greenough School, the middle-level prep school where Nickerson finished off his high school education...
...frontal assault to a guerrilla action. By 1929, the Houses were starting to rise, and it was obvious that the battle was at an end. The Crimson published a series of conciliatory, articles, including an interview with the first two House Masters. Julian Coolidge of Lowell and Chester Greenough of Dunster, in which the new administrators assured undergraduates that students and tutors would be served the same food "by the same waitresses," and that formal attire would not be required at dinner. Nonetheless, when opportunity presented itself, the temptation to snipe, was irresistible. In January, 1930, the front page displayed...
...other big story of Spring 1927 was the resignation of Chester Noyes Greenough as dean of Harvard College, and his replacement by A. Chester Hanford. The Crimson broke its tight, single column format to give the resignation a three column banner head. Huge (by contemporary standards) double column photographs of the incoming and outgoing deans adorned the page...